Jerzy Skolimowski English mental institution insane asylum fantasy horror melodrama ("Based on the story by Robert Graves"; about a doctor at a mental institution who talks to a patient who tells him why he is there; in flashback, you see his story of spending many years in the Australian Outback, learning mystical techniques, including a "Shout" that can kill people, and how he used those techniques to terrorize a man and his wife; throughout the movie, you don't know if the story the patient is telling is real or fantasized).
Starring Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens, Tim Curry, and Julian Hough. By all accounts, this is somewhat of a "forgotten masterpiece" by director Jerzy Skolimowski. It adapted from a 1929 novel by Robert Graves.
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